Wage determinants analysis of Brazilian professionals producers of music content: a view by a long tail approach

Abstract This article aims to compare the wages determinants for brazilian producers of musical content, splitted in two main groups: those who earn greater wages and those who earn minor wages. The aproach used to support this analysis is nominated The Long Tail, which was developed by Anderson (2006) and says that the music market can be divided in two parts, ie the hits market and the niches market. To percieve the effects of each variable over the hour-wage in those two different markets we use quantile regressions, applied over a typical mincerian wage function. The conclusions of this paper suggests that some of the wages determinants affect in a different ways the two specific music markets, described by the Long Tail aproach.